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• March 2023: Expedia Group announced a new API partnership with Wheel the World, a travel booking platform for accessible travelers in wheelchairs, effectively enhancing a seamless, end-to-end travel experience for travelers with disabilities. Through this partnership, Expedia Group will serve as the exclusive partner to power Wheel the World's lodging supply. Through Expedia Group's Rapid API technology, Wheel the World customers will have access to Expedia Group's extensive directly sourced hotel inventory with the ability to filter properties by their accessibility needs and preferences.
• November 2022: Booking Holdings, the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, expanded the Travel Sustainable program to relevant brands across the Booking Holdings family. The news marked the company's delivery of its commitment to launch its first-of-its-kind program for accommodations enterprise-wide by the end of 2023. Travel Sustainable provides credible information on impactful sustainability efforts taken by properties worldwide. It gives travelers a transparent, consistent, and easy-to-understand way to identify a wider range of more sustainable stays, no matter where they want to travel.

• February 2023: Sunway RE Capital expanded its student accommodation portfolio by acquiring Freehold purpose-built student accommodation, green word court, in Southampton, UK. The facility has 223 beds arranged as 217 non-en suites and 16 studios. The facility is just a few miles from the University of Southampton's Highfield and Bolderwood campuses.
• March 2022: Unite group sold a portfolio of 11 student accommodation properties with almost 4,500 beds at a price of more than GBP 306 Mn to an affiliate of Loan Star Funds. The disposal was a part of the group's proactive portfolio management strategy, resulting in increased alignment with high and mid-ranked universities delivering the most excellent quality and value to students.

• March 2023: Expedia Group announced a new API partnership with Wheel the World, a travel booking platform for accessible travelers in wheelchairs, effectively enhancing a seamless, end-to-end travel experience for travelers with disabilities. Through this partnership, Expedia Group will serve as the exclusive partner to power Wheel the World's lodging supply. Through Expedia Group's Rapid API technology, Wheel the World customers will have access to Expedia Group's extensive directly sourced hotel inventory with the ability to filter properties by their accessibility needs and preferences.
• November 2022: Booking Holdings, the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, expanded the Travel Sustainable program to relevant brands across the Booking Holdings family. The news marked the company's delivery of its commitment to launch its first-of-its-kind program for accommodations enterprise-wide by the end of 2023. Travel Sustainable provides credible information on impactful sustainability efforts taken by properties worldwide. It gives travelers a transparent, consistent, and easy-to-understand way to identify a wider range of more sustainable stays, no matter where they want to travel.

• May 2024: Proofpoint unveiled two revolutionary innovations that redefine email security, ensuring comprehensive and efficient protection at every stage of the email delivery process. By seamlessly incorporating novel detection methods at pre-delivery, click-time, and post-delivery stages, Proofpoint's enhanced core email security solutions introduce the industry's exclusive pre-delivery defense, targeting both social engineering threats and malicious links.
• January 2024: Trend Micro unveiled Trend Micro Email Security, a cybersecurity solution to combat email-based threats. Trend Micro's robust cybersecurity platform safeguards countless organizations and millions of individuals, spanning clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. Tailored for environments such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google, the platform provides a suite of advanced threat defense techniques, ensuring centralized visibility for swift detection and response.

• May 2024: AGC Biologics, a leading global biopharmaceutical CDMO, partnered with BioConnection, a specialized CMO, to focus on the aseptic filling of vials and syringes for clinical and commercial production.
• April 2024: Kühne Holding AG entered into a definitive agreement to acquire pharma contract development and manufacturing organization Aenova Group from leading international investment firm BC Partners.

• September 2024: Mexico City's Ministry of Health, via its Public Health Services, unveiled a reinforcement campaign for rabies vaccinations in canines and felines. The initiative aims to administer 405,902 doses to dogs and cats across the capital's 16 municipalities.
• September 2024: Martí Batres, one of the leading the Mexico City Government, inaugurated the "Michigan, City of Cats" animal shelter. This new facility will be situated within the Animal Surveillance Brigade, part of the capital's Citizen Security Secretariat.

• June 2024: Abbott, a global leader in healthcare, has unveiled Mexico's first and only HIV self-test. As part of its commitment to enhancing access to vital diagnostic tools and bolstering the battle against HIV in Mexico, Abbott introduced two self-testing solutions: the Panbio HIV Self-Test, set to be available to the public at major pharmacies nationwide, and Check Now, a variant exclusively distributed to health organizations and public institutions.
• April 2023: National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico initiated a clinical trial to evaluate the Point-of-Care Tests for Detecting Opportunistic Infections in Advanced HIV Patients in Mexico City (PREVALIOCDMX)

• May 2024: Austria-based plastic packaging and recycling firm Alpla Group entered a strategic partnership with South Africa-based Re-Purpose. The partnership is expected to boost polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling in South Africa.
• December 2023: Amcor Flexibles South Africa (AFSA) announced its plans to acquire Nampak's flexible packaging business. Post-acquisition, Amcor is expected to gain sole control over Nampak Flexibles, solidifying its position as South Africa's market leader in flexible packaging. Nampak Flexibles caters to a diverse clientele, spanning domestic and prominent multinational players in the food and beverage, pharma/healthcare, and home care industries.
• December 2023: INDEVCO Flexible Packaging, the manufacturing division specializing in flexible plastic and compounding within the INDEVCO Group, planned to participate in the Egyplast Exhibition. Throughout the exhibition, INDEVCO Flexible Packaging is expected to present its expansion plan in Egypt under the Sanita - Plastic Division alongside its distinguished brand, MicroMB. MicroMB is projected to showcase an extensive portfolio featuring fillers, masterbatches, additives, recycled resins, and compound polymers.

• March 2023: To grow, Medi Assist, a third-party administrator for health insurance, acquired Raksha Insurance. Medi Assist, based in Bengaluru, will be able to increase significantly its retail capabilities and fortify its position in the nation's interior thanks to the agreement.
• December 2022: Sedgwick set up a new business unit focused on resource solutions for its insurance clients in the United Kingdom. Sedgwick's experience and technical expertise help clients with temporary and permanent placements across claims handling divisions.

• October 2023: Square Capital LLC announced the debut of Tap to Pay on iPhone in Australia, where Square would make the technology available to its sellers. Tap to Pay on iPhone is available in the Square Point of Sale, Square for Retail, and Square Appointments iOS apps. It allows vendors of all sizes to accept contactless payments directly from their iPhones, with no additional hardware required or expense.
• July 2023: Grow Finance announced that the company partnered with Pismo to issue new Mastercard credit cards for small businesses in Australia. This new offer gives business owners better cash flow, management, and capital to help them improve their businesses.
• April 2023: Stripe announced the launch of unified commerce solutions for Australia. Through this, businesses of all sizes can accept in-person payments using the Stripe Terminal SDK and Tap to Pay on Android or Stripe Readers to unify online and in-person commerce with a single integration.